The idea being that games like NES/SNES Online, Tetris 99, etc. that check for your Nintendo Switch Online subscription status, could be made to hit this server instead of Nintendo's official one; and the server could just auto-respond "yes, this user has an active subscription" to any such request. More for the sake of banned consoles than for avoiding the subscription fee.
Of course, this wouldn't enable these games to actually play online, since it'd only be a verification server, not a lobby server or whatever else these games need. But it'd at least let you use the offline features of these games.
To be clear, I'm just asking whether this is possible in theory. If it is, I could probably step up to build it myself. But I'd like to know if there would be any obvious already-well-known roadblocks, before doing a bunch of research and experimentation just to discover them myself.
Of course, this wouldn't enable these games to actually play online, since it'd only be a verification server, not a lobby server or whatever else these games need. But it'd at least let you use the offline features of these games.
To be clear, I'm just asking whether this is possible in theory. If it is, I could probably step up to build it myself. But I'd like to know if there would be any obvious already-well-known roadblocks, before doing a bunch of research and experimentation just to discover them myself.
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